City police to monitor activities of cyber cafes

KOCHI: Two months after the city police began steps to monitor the activities of cyber cafes in Kochi, more measures are on the cards.
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Recently the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India, had published some guidelines regarding the use of internet cafes. The guidelines were issued as part of the IT Act, after an increase in the number of cyber crime cases, including terror-related.

“We have been taking strict measures in this regard. The functioning of cafes is being monitored by the cyber cell and the Crime Detachment DySP, who is the nodal officer for monitoring cafes. If a cyber crime is committed at a cafe, the cafe owner will also have to share the responsibility. We have asked the cafe owners to ensure that the activities of users are monitored. A meeting was held two months ago in which over 250 cafe owners attended,” said City Police Deputy Commissioner T Gopalakrishna Pillai.

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t was the Kochi police which investigated the case related to an e-mail sent by a youngster threatening the Prime Minister.

Also, there were some cyber cases related to morphing of pictures of women and posting them on social networking sites.� Last year the Kochi police, with the help of some cyber security organisations, had organised a cyber security meet in the city.

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